A social business isn't just a company that has a Facebook page and a
Twitter handle. A social business is one that embraces and cultivates a
spirit of collaboration and community throughout its organization—both
internally and externally.

IBM has identified three distinct characteristics of a social business:

Engaged—deeply connecting people, including customers, employees, and partners, to be involved in productive, efficient ways.

Transparent—removing boundaries to information, experts and assets, helping people align every action to drive business results.

Nimble—speeding up business with information and insight to anticipate and address evolving opportunities.

Moving to IBM SmartCloud Notes Web for browser based access to mail? Notes Browser Plugin will help you access your existing Notes/Domino applications from the browser. NBP and Notes Web are closely integrated for a smooth browser based solution for mails and applications

Simple steps to configure NBP on IBM SmartCloud

You must have the following information in order to successfully configure the IBM® Notes® Browser Plug-in for use with your IBM SmartCloud™ Notes account:

Notes client user ID

Login name for IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. Your new SmartCloud Notes email address will be your log-in name. For example: sdaryn@renov.com.

Temporary password. You get this from your administrator. You will be asked to change this password the first time you log in.

Procedure

Double-click the icon to launch the Notes Browser Plug-in.

User Configuration Wizard is launched.

Background: This step is not meant to configure the IBM Notes Browser Plug-in client to connect to a SmartCloud Notes mail server yet. At this point you are simply configuring the IBM Notes Browser Plug-in client so that it is in a state where it can be configured to access the SmartCloud Notes servers. What you enter into the Your name field is not significant and does not have to be a SmartCloud for Social Business login name.

You should not enter anything into the Domino® server field. Enter a name in the Your Name field.

Uncheck the checkbox I want to connect to a Domino server.

Note that this action greys out the Domino server field. Click Next.
Click Finish. The Notes Browser plug-in home page is displayed.

Copy the Notes client user ID that your administrator gave you to the Notes data directory on your system.

From the Notes menu, click File >Security > Switch ID. Note: Switch ID and Switch Location options are available only under the following conditions: on the home page, with no other tabs open, and only in Offline location. (no domino server specified in the location document)

Social business is no longer a nice to have,but is now a business imperative to improvecustomer communication and engagement,build loyal partner networks and improveinternal collaboration. We have been blogging,tweeting, connecting and collaboratingonline for years, but now it’s not just forpersonal use. The growth in social businesscan be measured by the amount being spenton software solutions purchased to help enterprisesmeet their social business strategies.According to Gartner, spending onsocial software to support sales, marketing,product development and customer servicewill exceed $1 billion worldwide in 2013Here is the URL for this bookmark: www.acquia.com/sites/default/files/library/attachment/Acquia[evalSBS-article]_FINAL.pdf Social business is no longer a nice to have,but is now a business imperative to improvecustomer communication and engagement,build loyal partner networks and improveinternal collaboration. We have been blogging,tweeting, connecting and collaboratingonline for years, but now it’s not just forpersonal use. The growth in social businesscan be measured by the amount being spenton software solutions purchased to help enterprisesmeet their social business strategies.According to Gartner, spending onsocial software to support sales, marketing,product development and customer servicewill exceed $1 billion worldwide in 2013

We know that IBM is a large Infrastructure company and have already provide various software, tools and Server etc . But according modernization,people have no time to expend extra time in other field like marketing looking this situation IBM lunches Mobile Computing which have capability to solve time problem and easy to use. It's really pleasure for us and thanking all IBM's Research and Development Engineers.

Enterprise social software is usually described as “Facebook for the
workplace.” But the description doesn’t quite convey how these
programs, have as the end result not socializing, but getting work
done.

True, just like with civilian Facebook, people write biographies of
themselves, post occasional pictures, share brief updates about their
accomplishments and “follow” others in the company they are interested
in.

But there is a business goal here: to use software to create the
feeling of everyone working together in the same conference room. My
favorite description of enterprise social software came from a customer
who said, “When we started our company, the guys working on the next
product release sat next to me. But as we got bigger, they moved to
another floor, then to another building, and finally to another
continent. Enterprise social software helps us feel small again.”

We know that IBM is a large Infrastructure company and have already provide various software, tools and Server etc . But according modernization,people have no time to expend extra time in other field like marketing looking this situation IBM lunches Mobile Computing which have capability to solve time problem and easy to use. It's really pleasure for us and thanking all IBM's Research and Development Engineers.

Welcome
to the IBM® Collaboration QuickStart for Social Business on the IBM
SmartCloud Enterprise - your instant access to three leading products in
social software - IBM Lotus Domino, IBM Sametime, and IBM Connections.
Designed for ease of use and minimal administration, this IBM SmartCloud
image is preinstalled with 85 user profiles, including names, email
addresses, images, and more. The goal is to get you up and running
quickly without any installations, hardware, or maintenance. All you
need is access to the system and a little time to start seeing the
benefits of a truly social business.
Here is the URL for this bookmark: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/appdevwiki.nsf/xpViewCategories.xsp?lookupName=IBM%20Collaboration%20QuickStart%20for%20Social%20Business

We know that IBM is a large Infrastructure company and have already provide various software, tools and Server etc . But according modernization,people have no time to expend extra time in other field like marketing looking this situation IBM lunches Mobile Computing which have capability to solve time problem and easy to use. It's really pleasure for us and thanking all IBM's Research and Development Engineers.

This time IBM's Consultants & Systems Integrator Interchange (CSII) event was held in Jaipur (The Pink City of India). The 3 days (actually 2.5 days) event started with keynote sessions and was fully packed with series of knowledge sharing session. This gives us a great opportunity to meet key IBM Leaders (sales as well as technical) in person and exchange lots of information and thoughts. This my 5th CSII event participation and I have seen this improving & getting better every year and theme being "Transformation for Growth".

As we had fully powere packed track sessions, meetings, hands-on experiences; we also had some fun and amusements in the evening with traditional music and rock n roll.

Thus the experience was very good and looking forward to participate in many such event.

Success stories are seductive because they are much easier to obtain than stories about social business failures. Vendors serve up success stories on a silver platter, whenever they can convince a customer to serve as a reference.

I believe the success stories of enterprise social networking are out
there, but it's also clear that they aren't as common or as easy to
achieve as you might expect. As part of my research for a Jan. 5 BYTE
webcast I'll be participating in (The Rise of Social Networks in the Enterprise), I've turned my attention to the obstacles to success.

Some of the material below comes from a close reading of the social business predictions for 2012
from Dion Hinchcliffe, executive vice president of strategy at Dachis
Group, and the articles he links to. One of his predictions is that
social intranets, or enterprise social networks, will continue to
struggle for adoption.

Coming from a third party analyst firm this must mean something to the market.

For us in IBM, this vindicates and validates the stance and strategy taken by our leadership in evolving the IBM WebSphere Portal product in a direction that is truly helpful to a myriad of customers across industries and geographies.

We are about to release the latest version which takes the whole Portal product to a different level altogether.

Worklight v5.0 .. there has been quite a buzz in developer community since it's release last month. So, what is it? Just another tool - nah! It's actually a platform that covers the mobile app development that includes app dev tools, app management tools, a dev environment and a standalone server to test apps.

There is a developer edition that's free to download to play with and get started. So, what are you waiting for? Probably, how to get started? For sure, there are hordes of links on the web to get you started with, though, here's a ready reckoner for readers: